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Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

authored by

Matt LaPlante and committed by
Adrian Bunk
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Documentation/IPMI.txt
··· 473 473 message as a block write to the I2C bus and waits for a response. 474 474 This action can be detrimental to some I2C devices. It is highly recommended 475 475 that the known I2c address be given to the SMBus driver in the smb_addr 476 - parameter. The default adrress range will not be used when a smb_addr 476 + parameter. The default address range will not be used when a smb_addr 477 477 parameter is provided. 478 478 479 479 When compiled into the kernel, the addresses can be specified on the
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Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/GPIO.txt
··· 24 24 header include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/hardware.h which can be 25 25 included by #include <asm/arch/hardware.h> 26 26 27 - A useful ammount of documentation can be found in the hardware 27 + A useful amount of documentation can be found in the hardware 28 28 header on how the GPIO functions (and others) work. 29 29 30 30 Whilst a number of these functions do make some checks on what
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Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt
··· 80 80 Adding New Machines 81 81 ------------------- 82 82 83 - The archicture has been designed to support as many machines as can 83 + The architecture has been designed to support as many machines as can 84 84 be configured for it in one kernel build, and any future additions 85 85 should keep this in mind before altering items outside of their own 86 86 machine files.
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Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
··· 4 4 5 5 Scope: 6 6 This document discusses the functionality of the rbu driver only. 7 - It does not cover the support needed from aplications to enable the BIOS to 7 + It does not cover the support needed from applications to enable the BIOS to 8 8 update itself with the image downloaded in to the memory. 9 9 10 10 Overview:
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Documentation/eisa.txt
··· 18 18 19 19 - The bus code implements most of the generic code. It is shared 20 20 among all the architectures that the EISA code runs on. It 21 - implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards avaible on the bus), 21 + implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards available on the bus), 22 22 allocates I/O resources, allows fancy naming through sysfs, and 23 23 offers interfaces for driver to register. 24 24
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Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt
··· 161 161 - Buy more coffee. 162 162 - test/port to other arch. 163 163 - try to add panning using tweeks with front and back buffer . 164 - - try to implement accel on voodoo2 , this board can actualy do a 164 + - try to implement accel on voodoo2, this board can actually do a 165 165 lot in 2D even if it was sold as a 3D only board ... 166 166 167 167 ghoz.
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Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt
··· 406 406 407 407 Far better would be an explicit action notifying the subsystem that the 408 408 config_item is ready to go. More importantly, an explicit action allows 409 - the subsystem to provide feedback as to whether the attibutes are 409 + the subsystem to provide feedback as to whether the attributes are 410 410 initialized in a way that makes sense. configfs provides this as 411 411 committable items. 412 412
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
··· 410 410 this memory, making it slower to access than lowmem. 411 411 LowTotal: 412 412 LowFree: Lowmem is memory which can be used for everything that 413 - highmem can be used for, but it is also availble for the 413 + highmem can be used for, but it is also available for the 414 414 kernel's use for its own data structures. Among many 415 415 other things, it is where everything from the Slab is 416 416 allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
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Documentation/ia64/fsys.txt
··· 165 165 * Signal handling 166 166 167 167 The delivery of (asynchronous) signals must be delayed until fsys-mode 168 - is exited. This is acomplished with the help of the lower-privilege 168 + is exited. This is accomplished with the help of the lower-privilege 169 169 transfer trap: arch/ia64/kernel/process.c:do_notify_resume_user() 170 170 checks whether the interrupted task was in fsys-mode and, if so, sets 171 171 PSR.lp and returns immediately. When fsys-mode is exited via the
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Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt
··· 10 10 The ikbd processor also maintains a time-of-day clock with one second 11 11 resolution. 12 12 The ikbd has been designed to be general enough that it can be used with a 13 - ariety of new computer products. Product variations in a number of 13 + variety of new computer products. Product variations in a number of 14 14 keyswitches, mouse resolution, etc. can be accommodated. 15 15 The ikbd communicates with the main processor over a high speed bi-directional 16 16 serial interface. It can function in a variety of modes to facilitate
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
··· 355 355 356 356 clock= [BUGS=IA-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 357 357 [Deprecated] 358 - Forces specified clocksource (if avaliable) to be used 358 + Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 359 359 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 360 - clocksource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT. 360 + clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 361 361 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 362 362 363 363 disable_8254_timer
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Documentation/keys.txt
··· 708 708 709 709 If the specified key is 0, then any assumed authority will be divested. 710 710 711 - The assumed authorititive key is inherited across fork and exec. 711 + The assumed authoritative key is inherited across fork and exec. 712 712 713 713 714 714 ===============
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Documentation/laptop-mode.txt
··· 152 152 DO_REMOUNTS: 153 153 154 154 The control script automatically remounts any mounted journaled filesystems 155 - with approriate commit interval options. When this option is set to 0, this 155 + with appropriate commit interval options. When this option is set to 0, this 156 156 feature is disabled. 157 157 158 158 DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:
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Documentation/mca.txt
··· 177 177 with clones that have a different adapter id than the original 178 178 NE/2. 179 179 180 - 6) Future Domain MCS-600/700, OEM'd IBM Fast SCSI Aapter/A and 180 + 6) Future Domain MCS-600/700, OEM'd IBM Fast SCSI Adapter/A and 181 181 Reply Sound Blaster/SCSI (SCSI part) 182 182 Better support for these cards than the driver for ISA. 183 183 Supports multiple cards with IRQ sharing.
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Documentation/md.txt
··· 175 175 raid levels that involve striping (1,4,5,6,10). The address space 176 176 of the array is conceptually divided into chunks and consecutive 177 177 chunks are striped onto neighbouring devices. 178 - The size should be atleast PAGE_SIZE (4k) and should be a power 178 + The size should be at least PAGE_SIZE (4k) and should be a power 179 179 of 2. This can only be set while assembling an array 180 180 181 181 component_size
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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
··· 1915 1915 access depends on a read, not all do, so it may not be relied on. 1916 1916 1917 1917 Other CPUs may also have split caches, but must coordinate between the various 1918 - cachelets for normal memory accesss. The semantics of the Alpha removes the 1918 + cachelets for normal memory accesses. The semantics of the Alpha removes the 1919 1919 need for coordination in absence of memory barriers. 1920 1920 1921 1921
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Documentation/networking/3c509.txt
··· 126 126 or impossible in normal operation. Possible causes of this error report are: 127 127 128 128 - a "green" mode enabled that slows the processor down when there is no 129 - keyboard activitiy. 129 + keyboard activity. 130 130 131 131 - some other device or device driver hogging the bus or disabling interrupts. 132 132 Check /proc/interrupts for excessive interrupt counts. The timer tick
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Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt
··· 56 56 57 57 ethtool -C eth0 rx-usecs 100 58 58 59 - You may also provide a timer latency value while disabling adpative-rx: 59 + You may also provide a timer latency value while disabling adaptive-rx: 60 60 61 61 ethtool -C <interface> adaptive-rx off rx-usecs <microseconds> 62 62
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Documentation/networking/dl2k.txt
··· 173 173 174 174 Parameter Description 175 175 ===================== 176 - You can install this driver without any addtional parameter. However, if you 176 + You can install this driver without any additional parameter. However, if you 177 177 are going to have extensive functions then it is necessary to set extra 178 178 parameter. Below is a list of the command line parameters supported by the 179 179 Linux device
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Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt
··· 34 34 35 35 ifconfig eth0 172.22.3.18 36 36 ^^^^^^^^^^^ 37 - Your IP Adress 37 + Your IP Address 38 38 39 39 Then you may have to modify the default routing table with command : 40 40
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Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
··· 2 2 1. Introduction 3 3 4 4 Linux distinguishes between administrative and operational state of an 5 - interface. Admininstrative state is the result of "ip link set dev 5 + interface. Administrative state is the result of "ip link set dev 6 6 <dev> up or down" and reflects whether the administrator wants to use 7 7 the device for traffic. 8 8
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Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
··· 296 296 - struct tpacket_hdr 297 297 - pad to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16 298 298 - struct sockaddr_ll 299 - - Gap, chosen so that packet data (Start+tp_net) alignes to 299 + - Gap, chosen so that packet data (Start+tp_net) aligns to 300 300 TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16 301 301 - Start+tp_mac: [ Optional MAC header ] 302 302 - Start+tp_net: Packet data, aligned to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16.
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Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
··· 7 7 8 8 Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen.o either in kernel 9 9 or as module. Module is preferred. insmod pktgen if needed. Once running 10 - pktgen creates a thread on each CPU where each thread has affinty it's CPU. 10 + pktgen creates a thread on each CPU where each thread has affinity to its CPU. 11 11 Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. Easiest to select a suitable 12 12 a sample script and configure. 13 13 ··· 32 32 Stopped: eth1 33 33 Result: OK: max_before_softirq=10000 34 34 35 - Most important the devices assigend to thread. Note! A device can only belong 35 + Most important the devices assigned to thread. Note! A device can only belong 36 36 to one thread. 37 37 38 38
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Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
··· 188 188 are used by the processor itself for holding such information as exception indications & 189 189 entry points for exceptions. 190 190 Bytes after 0xc00 hex are used by linux for per processor globals on s/390 & z/Architecture 191 - ( there is a gap on z/Architecure too currently between 0xc00 & 1000 which linux uses ). 191 + ( there is a gap on z/Architecture too currently between 0xc00 & 1000 which linux uses ). 192 192 The closest thing to this on traditional architectures is the interrupt 193 193 vector table. This is a good thing & does simplify some of the kernel coding 194 194 however it means that we now cannot catch stray NULL pointers in the ··· 861 861 6) rm /arch/s390/kernel/signal.o 862 862 7) make /arch/s390/kernel/signal.o 863 863 8) watch the gcc command line emitted 864 - 9) type it in again or alernatively cut & paste it on the console adding the -g option. 864 + 9) type it in again or alternatively cut & paste it on the console adding the -g option. 865 865 10) objdump --source arch/s390/kernel/signal.o > signal.lst 866 866 This will output the source & the assembly intermixed, as the snippet below shows 867 867 This will unfortunately output addresses which aren't the same
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Documentation/s390/cds.txt
··· 348 348 not online. 349 349 350 350 When the I/O request completes, the CDS first level interrupt handler will 351 - accumalate the status in a struct irb and then call the device interrupt handler. 351 + accumulate the status in a struct irb and then call the device interrupt handler. 352 352 The intparm field will contain the value the device driver has associated with a 353 353 particular I/O request. If a pending device status was recognized, 354 354 intparm will be set to 0 (zero). This may happen during I/O initiation or delayed
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Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt
··· 262 262 ----------- 263 263 264 264 The netiucv driver creates an attribute 'connection' under 265 - bus/iucv/drivers/netiucv. Piping to this attibute creates a new netiucv 265 + bus/iucv/drivers/netiucv. Piping to this attribute creates a new netiucv 266 266 connection to the specified host. 267 267 268 268 Netiucv connections show up under devices/iucv/ as "netiucv<ifnum>". The interface
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Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt
··· 1151 1151 1152 1152 New driver versions are made available separately in order to allow testing 1153 1153 changes and new features prior to including them into the linux kernel 1154 - distribution. The following URL provides informations on latest avalaible 1154 + distribution. The following URL provides information on latest available 1155 1155 patches: 1156 1156 1157 1157 ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier/README
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Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt
··· 3 3 General Iomega ZIP drive page for Linux: 4 4 http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ 5 5 6 - Driver achive for old drivers: 6 + Driver archive for old drivers: 7 7 http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ppa/ 8 8 9 9 Linux Parport page (parallel port)
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Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
··· 27 27 scsi = SCSI driver, m = AMD (?) as opposed to w for the DC390W/U/F 28 28 (NCR53c8X5, X=2/7) driver. Yes, there was also a driver for the latter, 29 29 tmscsiw, which supported DC390W/U/F adapters. It's not maintained any more, 30 - as the ncr53c8xx is perfectly supporting these adpaters since some time. 30 + as the ncr53c8xx is perfectly supporting these adapters since some time. 31 31 32 32 The driver first appeared in April 1996, exclusively supported the DC390 33 33 and has been enhanced since then in various steps. In May 1998 support for